A new assistant principal will takeover curriculum and instruction when the school year starts at Winder-Barrow High School. The Barrow County Schools’ Board of Education hired Mill Creek High School educator Jennifer E. Martin following a closed meeting to discuss personnel on Tuesday night. At WBHS, Martin will be the assistant principal of teaching and learning, which will involve overseeing curriculum for all core areas. Martin replaces Jean McIntosh, who resigned to take a post in Morgan County.
In other BOE news, the board delayed final passage of the school system’s 2013 budget at its regular meeting on Tuesday, pending a revised legal advertisement that will have the correct date of the vote. An earlier snafu created the delay, although it has no practical impact on the system's spending.
For this and other school news, see the July 11 issue of the Barrow Journal.

Name recognition or not-Justin Grant is the ONLY principal in that school who is focused on kids. State your personal beef with grant and cut the vagueness. After all, how many people can walk into a professional career in Barrow without name recognition? Not many-most careers are reserved in Barrow "because of their name." Finally-dont forget-Darby brought Grant into that job not the other way around.

Justin Grant loves those kids. He has his job because he does it well. He dedicates his whole self to his job and doing what is in the best interest for those children. Too bad you can't see that, Anonymous. Go ahead and change the channel and find something better to do!

Justin Grant does a great job and his #1 focus is the students at WBHS. I agree with Anno if you have a personal beef with Mr Grant take that up with him. Don't down grade him on here, He cares so much about the students and the school.

Justin Grant in no way deserves the job he has. He would not be hired at any other school. He has his job because he's buddies with Al Darby and because he went to WBHS. There should be more qualifications than those to be an assistant principal. And even Stevie Wonder can see he has done a terrible job as athletic director. Running off good coaches, etc. (how's that football hire working for him?)

Whether he deserves the job or not, he got it like most other people in Barrow. If you have a problem with him being here-blame darby! If Winder had winning seasons, you would say Grant was a great athletic director. Either way he still cares about kids far more than the other three.

Exactly...We finally got rid of the JOCK principal at Russell Middle (the guy before Rob Johnson)
We need to bring the focus back to education, not what ever they can to keep kids entertained so they can get their numbers to report back to the state. We need to stop teaching for the test and teach for their future so they can survive!

But WBHS football is in the tank because of Grant running off the previous coach and then making a terrible hire. That alone shows he's not qualified for the job. He has no qualifications for the job other than he's from here and he's one of us. That mentality is what is wrong with Barrow County. Certain people think they are entitled to something because of their name. I'm preparing to speak at an upcoming school board meeting about this.

Im trying to figure out how an article on hiring a new principal has anything to do with the AD. Don't start blaming jocks. Matter of fact atheletes, band and most other extra cirricular activities have grade requirements to participate. So these students not only pass but their extra time is also filled with other things than going home to an empty house or loitering in a parking lot. A new principal aint gonna fix it. Good parenting along with discipline at school and a "traditional" schedule instead of this ridiculous "block" scheduling is a combination for success. Actually good academics and atheletics go hand in hand. Yet people on this blog are determined to be devisive in everything. Nothing is going to change until we start moving in the same direction.

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